Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews

From Kirkus Reviews: “Rabbi Telushkin (An Eye for an Eye, 1991), rooted in the tradition of reverence for past learning, has gathered lots of hoary jokes and aged wisecracks, together with a few more recent japes, that make Jews laugh. To coreligionists, they’ll seem like old friends; to others, the gags and their elucidation may be more in the nature of revelation. Another book of ethnic gags? Hold the cry of “gevalt!” because Telushkin has an unstated agenda. True to his calling, he uses the funny stuff to instruct. In this collection (in which some bits are, naturally, funnier than others), everything stands for something else–but all of it carries explanations. The exegesis of the jokes becomes a little primer on a religion and a way of life mystifying to strangers and sometimes just as puzzling to nominal adherents. It’s a truism that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle applies to humor–observing and analyzing it alters it. That effect can be seen here as Telushkin trots out Jackie Mason and Sigmund Freud, as well as Leo Rosten and a host of Unknown Comics for a higher purpose. The tales of the wise rabbis, the fabled fools of Chelm, the anti-Semites, the schnorrers, and the big shots all serve to illustrate his lessons. Was the shtetl a forerunner of Catskills on Broadway? Why are comedians so often Jewish? Why are Jews so often comedians? Why ask questions? Just listen to the rabbi and his jokes. Fine, funny fare for Jew and non-Jew alike.”

Not only is humor very rare in Hebrew literature before the 19th century (and is only found during few periods, in countries where the Jewish upper class was relatively free from the rabbinical yoke, such as Italy between the 14th and 17th centuries or Muslim Spain) but humor and jokes are strictly forbidden by the Jewish religion – except, significantly, jokes against other religions.

Satire against rabbis and leaders of the community was never internalized by Judaism, not even to a small extent, as it was in Latin Christianity. There were no Jewish comedies, just as there were no comedies in Sparta, and for a similar reason. [8] Or take the love of learning. Except for a purely religious learning, which was itself in a debased and degenerate state, the Jews of Europe (and to a somewhat lesser extent also of the Arab countries) were dominated, before about 1780, by a supreme contempt and hate for all learning (excluding the Talmud and Jewish mysticism).

Large parts of the Old Testament, all nonliturgical Hebrew poetry, most books on Jewish philosophy were not read and their very names were often anathematized. Study of all languages was strictly forbidden, as was the study of mathematics and science. Geography, [9] history – even Jewish history – were completely unknown. The critical sense, which is supposedly so characteristic of Jews, was totally absent, and nothing was so forbidden, feared and therefore persecuted as the most modest innovation or the most innocent criticism.

yung poogaloo​a black would def be one to think someone has to be on﻿ meth to read

Zagreos​the﻿ sheep of ALL races don’t have agency, fool

Bill z​We blame the Irish.﻿ Ted fucking Kennedy

E. Vee​ughhhhhhhhhhhhh﻿

Mike Ferrin​@Tom Anderson New York intellectuals were mostly﻿ liberals … not neoconservatives, no?

E. Vee​um﻿ no

Gerard Perry​Kennedy was also responsible in large part for the 1990 Immigration Act, which was also a disaster﻿

E. Vee​the bad outweigh the good﻿

Rune Skyttsing​Jews are﻿ so intelligent that nomether what area they get into they get successfull… Revolutionary Marxism, Banking, “Hollywood” or “law”. Talking about Askenazi jews. (English is not my native toung

Vault Right​What are the primary differences between the﻿ gentile and jewish mindset?

Gerard Perry​Neoconservatives was﻿ a very small clique.

Zagreos​I love Stalin because he killed a﻿ lot of Jews. And I love Hitler too

Vault Right​Do you think psychoanalysis﻿ is accurate or is it just over-intellectualization? I know Freud used it primarily to subvert gentiles but isn’t it still somewhat accurate?

Gerard Perry​You can’t find the video online, unfortunately﻿

Tom Anderson​@Mike Ferrin Correct as was Irving Kristol, which brings us to the point that there is nothing﻿ conservative about neoconservatism it’s just a name like North Korea calling itself a democratic republic

E. Vee​i’m a﻿ lawyer

Vault Right​Interesting﻿

Bill z​A: They both look﻿ good hanging from a tree

E. Vee​the bar was hard work, but now it’s a lot of down﻿ time, a lot of smoozing, a lot of reading, which i enjoy anyway.

Rune Skyttsing​What about Carl﻿ Ljung? Ljungism?

Gerard Perry​Talk therapy is only given the credence it is because the people who craft our culture believe in﻿ it.

Zagreos​Why are so many Jewish intellectual figures plagiarists? Einstein, Freud (what was true in Freud was not﻿ origina; what was original is not true), Marx (plagiarised Duhring et al), Bob Dylan, etc.

Vault Right​Fedora tier question: what is the best argument for a﻿ monotheistic god?

Tom Anderson​Bismarck﻿

Gerard Perry​That’s one of the reasons I thought In Treatment, which was based on an Israeli drama, was so great. Its protagonist was a psychotherapist who knew psychotherapy was﻿ bunk.

E. Vee​New﻿ Jersey

Mike Ferrin​@Tom Anderson Neoconservatism is about rejecting socialism in favor of﻿ free market capitalism … which was the Cold War question

Tom Anderson​@Mike﻿ Ferrin no it’s not it’s about perpetual war to force liberal democracy on the world

Mike Ferrin​And neoconservatism about unabashed support of America﻿ in Cold War as morally superior to Soviet bloc

Tom Anderson​Neocons do not﻿ care about domestic policy

Tom Anderson​They hated the USSR because it was Stalinist. There’s no bigger﻿ enemy of Trotskyists then Stalinists

Gerard Perry​Ray Comfort deploys that argument a lot in his ministry, i.e. the craftsman.﻿

Vault Right​😂😂﻿

Mike Ferrin​@Tom Anderson Not﻿ about perpetual war — but assumption of neoconservatism is that if whole world goes to liberal democracy, it will be prosperous and peaceable

E. Vee​yes﻿ haha

Mephistopheles Lux​Do jews support muslim immigration to europe hoping it will scare european jews into moving to﻿ israel?

Gerard Perry​It does resemble contemporary leftism in its SJW variant. The whole blank slate theory that people﻿ are infinitely malleable.

Aeschylus Jones​Why can’t﻿ patriotic jews and patriotic whites work together to take back the country?…or are they too distrusting of the goy?

Tevron Sampson​yeah this guy is﻿ definitely on meth. chattering like a meth addict and obsessive reading about one subject

Mike Ferrin​@Tom Anderson The neocons hated the USSR because they were the rare Leftists who were honest about it; in contrast to their Leftist friends, who lied about﻿ the USSR to defend it

Bill z​That made me laugh﻿

Gerard Perry​It’s thematic﻿ consistency, Tevron

Mephistopheles Lux​the powerful ones﻿ do

Bill z​Tevron﻿ prefers rock

E. Vee​hmm, weird Tevron. we’re enjoying this.﻿

FukU2222​@Tevron Sampson Are you new here or just b8’ing that hard???﻿

Vault Right​Lol﻿

Zagreos​I don’t see “intelligence” in the universe. I see﻿ conflicting intelligences. Good and evil. Which points more to polytheism than monotheism.

Gerard Perry​But the idea that they have no real explanation for what created﻿ the event that preceded the escape of space-time and mass-and don’t even attempt to hazard a guess-is a big deal, IMO

FukU2222​#notall ofc 😛﻿

Zagreos​I agree that the average goyim is﻿ stupid. And the average Jew, too. The big Jew exploits and manipulates both communities

Mike Ferrin​lol﻿

Mephistopheles Lux​Luke you are playing semantic﻿ games

Brian Andrews​You can trick a child easier﻿ than an adult

Aeschylus Jones​Whites have banned jews from over 100 countries….so they aren’t all that gullible…they﻿ know whats up

Degenerate Scumbag​Luke, it﻿ just doesn’t. These are entirely different concepts. It’s true that agency and intelligence do correlate to a degree, but with enough control over information, you can fool a genius.

Vault Right​The problem is gentiles are pacified﻿ with modern comfortability

Zagreos​Don’t get me wrong, I see the the bulk of the goyim as﻿ a bunch of sheep/children as well. As regards human cattle, I agree with the Jewish exploiters. I don’t oppose Jewry on moral grounds

FukU2222​Bread﻿ & Circus

Mike Ferrin​Drunk — if not﻿ for alcohol, I wouldn’t know what love is

voltron512​Tree of Logic﻿

Degenerate Scumbag​When people who have been fooled wake up to what is going on, they get angry and reassert their agency﻿ soon enough. This is why Jews have been expelled 109 times.

voltron512​lol﻿

Zagreos​185﻿ IQ people are more likely to be tricked on certain things than 85 IQ people. Unconscious intelligence (instinct) is often better than regular intelligence / IQ.

Brian Andrews​Luke- Do you believe States﻿ Rights should supersede Federal government regulations if they do not take money from the federal gov’t

voltron512​Debating Tree of Logic in a serious manner is like playing basketball with﻿ a downs syndrome kid and getting upset that he keeps traveling

Tom Anderson​Jews have never been kicked out﻿ of a non religious society because until just a few decades ago there were no non religious societies

Rune Skyttsing​Baked Alaska… And﻿ now Andy Warsky…

voltron512​its﻿ a lose/lose situation

Vault Right​Why do you﻿ think we whites hate ourselves, luke? Is it just a historical cycle of prosperity and decline?

voltron512​lol..disavow﻿

Tom Anderson​I strongly disavow﻿

Mephistopheles Lux​good point﻿

Vault Right​yeah﻿ true

Autistic RAGE​TFW too good for our own﻿ good

Gerard Perry​I think Christianity’s influence over society crested during the Counter-Reformation. There were revivals,﻿ e.g. The Second Great Awakening, afterwards but they were episodic.

Vault Right​lukes streams > bloodsports on some days – I am being a﻿ shabbos goy at the moment

danishholme​What does Luke think about the﻿ Stern Gang?

Tom Anderson​does﻿ it count as being a shabbos since he’s a convert? 🤔

Ian Buchan​Golly gee.﻿

yung poogaloo​do you get heat from other jews for the people you﻿ interact with luke?

yung poogaloo​just found you through the﻿ goad podcast

Rune Skyttsing​If one really want to dabate a high IQ black, then I suggest Tariq Nasheed, not Tree of Logiq. The﻿ way he comletelly dismantled Jared Taylor was big brain activity one-o-one

voltron512
$5.00

Luke. I gotta﻿ a banana…..arggghhhhhhhhh!!! ….gagging…

voltron512​lol﻿

Gerard Perry​Lehi﻿

Tom Anderson​i want﻿ some shekels

L M​damn﻿ luke killed a rabbi

Gerard Perry​They assassinated Folke Bernadotte.﻿

yung poogaloo​for this sort of﻿ thing?

Ian Buchan​Whites also have a precarious semi-hidden existence across much of South America as a hidden elite. We just want to be left alone and to﻿ run things.

Gerard Perry​Yitzhak Shamir was one﻿ of its leaders

Rune Skyttsing​Lehi often known pejoratively as the Stern Gang, was﻿ a Zionist paramilitary organization founded by Avraham (“Yair”) Stern in Mandatory Palestine. Its avowed aim was to evict the British

Tom Anderson​Lmao﻿

yung poogaloo​thanks luke likewise﻿

Mephistopheles Lux​lol﻿

voltron512​how did she get﻿ this far?

L M​tariq only won bc jared﻿ is too stupid not to name the jews

FukU2222​Did someone﻿ say NazBol gang??

allslaves dollarbanks​Zip coon if you﻿ know term, Tariq

Gerard Perry​The IRA did the same thing, but John Derbyshire﻿ thinks they were terrorists.

Gerard Perry​The﻿ original IRA.

L M​nazbol﻿ gang gang

Autistic RAGE​Tariq Nasheed is one of the foremost﻿ white supremacists on Earth.

danishholme​Yeah. The Stern gang was a Jewish paramilitary group in order to fight British rule over Palestine. Stern’s plan﻿ was to fight alongside with the Axis, and free the lands of Palestine from the British.

danishholme​And they were to help Germany by deporting all the Jews from Europe﻿ to migrate to his newly-formed Israel, which would become a country ruled by “nationalist and totalitarian principles”.